Athena’s Gem Theatre – Getting A New Lease Of Life
The Gem Theatre is located in Athena—a small, community surrounded by wheat fields in the northeast corner of Oregon. The theatre showed its first “moving pictures” in 1909 and closed in 1968. Four decades of decay followed—an all too common tale of theatres lost forever. But, in the case of the Gem, a handful of determined volunteers intervened beginning in 2004. Continue reading... “Athena’s Gem Theatre – Getting A New Lease Of Life”
